Brainsick:Jim_Callahan: So... a standard solar oven, then? Used to make those all the time with tinfoil and spare glass when I was a little kid. Standard cub scout stuff.

//My grandmother used to use them for pot roasts, assumably just to show us all up.

I think you meant 'presumably'.

That said, I'm 35 and don't have a lawn, but even the 'standard' stuff from when I was growing up is largely ignored by a lot of people these days. If you have trouble believing that, find a 5th grader and ask them to write something in cursive.

I'm going to get arrested for this. People will see cookies in a car in an area crowded with children and think the wrong thing. If people knew me, they would know that I don't share cookies with friends, much less strangers and or children.

It's a legitimately constructed word (making its meaning clear to anyone familiar with English language conventions) and people say it on a regular basis, that fills the requirements for being a word in descriptive linguistics, which is kinda the dominant form of the science right now.

Note that spell check doesn't ping "kinda", which is idiom that's completely impenetrable to anyone that doesn't have English as a first language.

Brainsick:Brainsick: Jim_Callahan: So... a standard solar oven, then? Used to make those all the time with tinfoil and spare glass when I was a little kid. Standard cub scout stuff.

//My grandmother used to use them for pot roasts, assumably just to show us all up.

I think you meant 'presumably'.

That said, I'm 35 and don't have a lawn, but even the 'standard' stuff from when I was growing up is largely ignored by a lot of people these days. If you have trouble believing that, find a 5th grader and ask them to write something in cursive.

Did you have to make me all sad? I'm not what you'd call "old," buyt I still write in script--albeit a very girly script. I can't write in standard block handwriting anymore. Which is weird, because around ninth grade (2001), my brain completely flipped.